Semantic Layer Contracts in England

Semantic Layer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Semantic Layer skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Semantic Layer over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 550 628
Rank change year-on-year +62 +78 +149
Contract jobs citing Semantic Layer 6 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.023% 0.011% 0.021%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.13% 0.062% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile £375 £540 £495
25th Percentile £471 £591 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £606 £725 -
90th Percentile £618 - £615
UK median daily rate £575 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -17.86% +21.74% +4.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Semantic Layer falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,727 6,499 8,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.43% 17.50% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,276 4,681 5,810
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 139 152
10th Percentile £19.10 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.63 £20.76 £32.30
Median hourly rate £33.94 £40.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -29.76% +41.84%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £71.70 £82.95
UK median hourly rate £34.99 £40.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year -12.53% -29.08% +40.47%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Semantic Layer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Semantic Layer in England

Semantic Layer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Semantic Layer in England.

Daily rate trend for Semantic Layer in England

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Layer in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Layer in England

Semantic Layer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Layer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 3 £460 - 3
London +45 2 £550 -21.43% 21
Midlands - 1 £320 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £320 - 1
Semantic Layer
UK

Semantic Layer
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Azure App Service
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (16.67%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Delta Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Product Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (33.33%) Coaching
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Data Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Security
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMP
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft